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Minnesota's ardent internationalist Joe Ball said: "We can't fiddle around. . . . Time is short. I urge all Americans . . . to insist upon clear, unequivocal answers . . . from Presidential and Congressional nominees. Safe, easy generalities . . . are not enough...
...correspondents pondered, and wrote tons of newsprint about this new and, to them, strange kind of campaign. Not even Dewey's most ardent admirers pretended that he ever showed a superabundance of warmth, or relaxed in backslapping informality. His deportment was precise and correct, at times even chill...
...night last week the telephone jangled in the big colonial Governor's mansion on the hilltop at Austin, Tex. The White House was calling Governor Stevenson. This was a rare occasion. Tall, leathery Coke Stevenson is no ardent New Dealer...
...Most ardent chronicler of the Bennett case was the late Alexander Woollcott. Some years after the trial, he dug up a possibly apocryphal footnote. Mrs. Bennett was again playing bridge. This time her partner, a young man unacquainted with her past, overbid. As he laid down his hand, he casually murmured: "Partner, I'm afraid you'll want to shoot me for this." Commented Woollcott: "Mrs. Bennett had the good taste to faint...
...Among ardent strategic airmen a"Cassino"is an overblown operation in which bombers that should be striking at the enemy's heart are used instead to whittle at his fingertips, the targets are broken to complete rubble, and the whole project sags to a halt because of sluggish work on the ground...